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WILLIAM E. JONES. AUGUSTA, Ga. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1838. VoL.'n.-No 138.
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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
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AUGUSTA. wi
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MONDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 12. to
We learn by a gentleman from Millcdgeville
last evening, that the following elections had taken
place in the Legislature of this State, viz :
Marshall J. Wellborn, Esq. of Columbus,
Judge of the Chattahoochie Circuit,
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Edward Y. Hill, Esq. of Monticello, Judge of
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Oakmulgec circuit, vice Judge Polhill, dcc’d.
or
Turner H. Trippc, Esq., of Clarkesvillu, Judge j
of the Cherokee circuit.
Hon. John W. Wilde, re-elected Judge of die |
Court of Common Pleas of this city.
Levi S. D’ Lyon, Judge of the Court of Oyer
and Terminer of the city of Savannah.
These gentlemen arc all members of the State
Rights party.
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New York Election. t ; t
By the Express Midi yesterday morning wc re
ccived the accounts of the number of votes polled (1
in the city of New York for the first two days
which wore as follows:
Ist day, 10404 aV
3d day, 13445
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1 ./ Total, 29849 f P
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Up to 12 o’clock on the third day 4900 votes
had been polled. It is supposed that the whole
number in the city will probably reach 40000.
The result is considered on all hands to be ex- 1
tremely doubtful.
The accounts of the first and second day's vo
tings in some of the River counties between New ‘ U
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York and Albany were said to favorable to the
Whigs—but it is all guess-work. This morning,
if the Express comes through wc shall know the
result in the city. tIJ
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Rhode Island Senator.
Tin Legislature of Rhode Island, on the 3d °*
inst., elected Nathan Fellows Dixon a Senator 11 ’
to the Congress of tho United States,for six years
from the fourth of March next, in the place of tl(l
Asher Robbins, whose term of office will then
expire. Mr. Dixon was elected on the first bal
loting by a majority of 25. Mr. D. is a promt- I’*'
nent member of the Whig party of Rhode Island. )u
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Shipwreck. P°
Capt. Griffiths, of the U. S. Mail schooner
Hope, arrived at Charleston on Thursday evening tin
last, from Key West, states that the schooner tio
South Carolina, Captain Shippcy, hound to mi
Charleston from Havana, sailed from that place of
on (he 29th ult., and on the same night sprung tin
main mast, lost main and jib boom and split sails ca
—put back to Havana, sold her fruit there ataue- gn
tiou, and will be given up to the underwriters. no
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Canada. l, e
The Montreal Herald states that a perfect system
of organization is in operation all along the fron- px
tier, and that the loyal inhabitans are hourly so
dreading an attack. The Herald says that a sort
of joint stock hank has been established at Detroit sp
for the purpose of raising funds to pay the expen-
ses of the threatened invasion, and that muskets sp
arc selling at Buffalo at a nominal price to those j n
who signify their intention of engaging in the m
expedition. The rebels, it is said, hold meetings ( |j
in various places and are well supplied with arms. t ;,
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The Mormons o l
We fear, says the St. Louis Bulletin of the
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31st ult., that there will yet arise serious difficul- ( j
ties between our citizens and these deluded fana
tics. By the steamer Astoria, wc have a confir-
ination of the report of the burning of Daviess
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Court House, Post Office, and a store by the
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Mormons. —It is stated that the Governor has or-
dered out 4000 militia ; and wc understand that ,
volunteer companies arc rapidly being organised
to march to tho scene of action. The Mormons .
are said to receive daily accessions to their num
bers, by emigrants from Canada.
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Expeditions travelling.
The Philadelphia Herald says that since the
completion of the rail road from Baltimore to
York, passengers may leave Washington in the
early morning train, and reach Baltimore in time
to take tho railroad train to York; Irom thence
they arc conveyed in stages twenty-five miles to
Harrisburg on a turnpike road, reaching the eas
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tern termination of the Cumberland Valley Rail- .
road in time to join the evening train of cars on its
westward trip from Philadelphia, and arriving in
Chambersburg the same evening—whole distance
one hundred and seventy-eight miles, of which
twenty-five miles only' are by stages. Passengers
may also leave Chambersburg in the morning and
arrive in Baltimore the same afternoon hv the same
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. route.
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Iron .Mountain in Kentucky. 1
The Louisville City Gazette says, Kentucky a
contains a most extraordinary hank of iron ore. 1
It is a hill (rising considerably above the surface) d
of many hundred acres area, and the ore to the 11
depth of seventeen feet, can he had with little or r
tno stripping. From an estimate made, it has been
found that it would supply sixteen blast furnaces r
H of the first class for fifty years. c
Tho Memphis Enquirer states that 15. 15.
Phornton, a passenger in the steamboat Belle, of
Missouri, fell or jumped overboard on the night
>f the 17lhult., and was drowned.
The Small-pox is said to prevail extensively in
lallifax and Person counties, of North Carolina.
'Phe Detroit Adzertiser of the 30th nil. states
liat Horace Cooley, an American, and Mr. Beau
lan, who were taken on the St. Clair River last
•inter, and who were under sentence of death,
avc been reprieved, and the sentence commuted
0 transportation.
From our Correspondent.
B.vltimouk, Nbv. 5.
The Washington Chronicle, the organ of the
lalhoun Loco Focos, at the seat of Government i
i, as many of your readers know, the old United |
dates Telegraph under a new name, it having \
heady taken several besides, such as the Reform- '
r, the Merchant, &e., &c. The Government
dvertiseinents which appear in its columns show
rat the followers of Mr. Calhoun arc begining 1
J reap some benefit from their new position: |
nd these “crumbs from master’s table,” indicate j
rat the “ hungry cormorant,” as Isaac Hill once !
ylcd the paper, has as last crawled into favor, j
Vhcn the Chronicle is in the humour of taking
nother name, I would suggest that it assume the
tie of “The Apostates’ Gazette and Rogues
nd Royalists’ Vindicator,” with the motto of
Root Hog or Die.”
We are now beginning to learn how the recent
rrangements of the Government with the Bank
1 the United States, work in different parts of
ic country. Some facts have been disclosed re
jecting a late financial movement in the Chero
ec country. An agent of the Bank of the Uni
•d Slates—“ Biddle’s monster,” was sent to the
Iherokeecountry, with one million of dollars, in
fiddle’s bank notes—to defray tho expenses of
ic Indian emigration, hij the express arrange- i
tent of the War Department, The money has i
ccordingly, been so employed by express direr- i
on of Mr. Secretary Poinsett, in lieu of tho I
ic “ constitutional currency.” By invitation of |
lat functionary, the bank has extended substau- i
al aid to the Government; and the “.noxsTF.n”
i this instance has triumphed over the “ party.” I
What will Mr. Calhoun, and his clique think '
f this kind of “ divorce"—this practical com- 1
icntary on their “specie clause”—this irrefraga- 1
Ic proof that the Sub-Treasury is not in opera- 1
on. I
The following communication should have ap- 1
eared in time for our last week’s country paper,
at was overlooked. It contains sound and sensi
!c views in relation to the project of direct im
ortation.
Mu. Junks. —l looked with groat anxiety to
ic proceedings of the late Commercial Convon- 1
on, held in Augusta, hoping that something J
light bo done which might advance the cause
f direct importations. 1 have seen nothing (al- ‘
lough I object to nothing that has been done,)
ilculated in my humble conception to further the 1
rent enterprise. It is true the Convention has
o power to enforce its recommendations nor 1
light it to have any, yet such measures might 1
e proposed as would at once strike at the root of 1
ic evil, which has not as yet been done. The 1
xtension of railroads throughout the south and 1
■nilhwcst, thereby increasing and accelerating
ie intercourse between the important productive
notions of our country and the seaports, will only
■ivc the effect of increasing the trade of our own
eaports without promoting in the least, direct i
rnportations. Railroads would certainly be tre
icndous auxiliaries in fostering and enlarging a
- trade once it was established. But of j
iicmselvcs, they will never bring it into existence.
Many have been the speculations as to the causes
f our foreign trade centering at the north. But
lothing is clearer than that the war of 1812, was
lie prime cause. A reference to (he history
ommcrcc antecedent to that period _
his to be true. The northern people prior to that
irisis were strictly a commercial people; but the
capital embarked in that pursuit being thrown
rom its moorings by that event, and an increased
lernand existing for domestic, manufactures, it
,vas absorbed by this latter channel, and has con
inued in it, producing an entire revolution in
>ur commerce.
The coarse goods that were before received
rom England, were from that time manufactured
it the north. The south at once exchanged her
aw material for these manufactures, and hence
he origin of our domestic trade which is now so
arge. The merchants of the south, soon found it
o their advantage to travel to tho north for their
lomestic supplies, thereby avoiding tho advance
if the merchants at our own seaports. This
rade naturally drew along with it, the trade in
importing goods, and here is the secret of all our
foreign trade centering in the northern ports. The
larilT and banking facilities, to which has been
attributed by some as the cause, was made subsi
diary to tho retention of what had already been
obtained. Thus it is plain where exists tlui foun
dation of the evil, and what must be donHo re
medy it. It is a universally admitted
moral and physical philosophy, that so long as'
the cause continues so long will the effect be felt,
and in order to mitigate tho effect wc must arrest
the cause. Now nothing is more susceptible of
demonstration than the fart, that so long as our
merchants find it to be their interest to go to |
northern ports to purchase domestic goods, just so
long will our trade remain as it is. We must j
make it tho interest of our merchants to patronize |
our own ports which can only be done by pre- !
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spilling to the imvchnser domestic fabrics nearly
as cheap at Charleston, ns at New Vork. Trading
companies of merchants might be established,
having agencies in our seaports for the spec'al
purpose of procuring domestic manufactures. 1
am not so sure hut that it would he to the inte
rest of the merchants of our seaports, to act mere
ly as agents in regard to this species of goods.
The present loss would be more than compen
sated by the ultimate gain, should it he the means
ol securing to their respective cities the import
and export trade of the south. I noticed a reso
lution offered by some one of tin; Convention of
Twenty-one, to report as to the best practicable
means of securing to our own ports the patron
age of our own merchants. A resolution hy-the
-1 ye, which had neither sense nor nonsense in it
a perfect nondescript, for so I had imagined that
the Convention met for the purpose of pointing
out the best practicable means of bringing about
a direct trade, which matter was already before the
committee according to the resolution under
which it was appointed. The committee say in
summing up their report in the form of reso
lutions, that the extension of railroads will be the
most certain means of reviving a direct trade. I
can readily imagine the whole trade of (he south
to be turned to her own ports, and still bs no di
rect trade with Europe. Railroads arc intended
to convey quickly and cheaply goods and passen
gers from one point to another, and if their exis
tence can enable the merchants of the interior,
southern and western states, to bring their goods
home more expeditiously, and at less cost from
New Vork, than they now do—they will just be
the means of fixing the trade of the country more
firmly where it nowis. The demand for domestic
goods is increasing which makes it more the in
terest of country merchants to buy as near the
manufuctury as possible, and the capital which
is now invested in the importing business being
so closely interwoven, with that invested in the
domestic trade, that the holders will ho enabled
to retain the one while they do the other. No
man need ever expert to see a flourishing direct
trade until some means arc adopted to bring the
price of domestic fabrics in southern cities,
nearly down to what they are in northern cities.
No man feels a greater anxiety for the success of
the project which has been so auspiciously begun
than I do, for I verily believe if it once was suc
cessful, wo as a people would at. once bo relieved
from all tire exactions of federal tyranny, and at
tacks of vile incendiaries, who have been enabled
by filching from our industry to appear in the at
titude of enemies. The above remarks are writ
ten in haste, but if they arc worth perusal by
your readers, you can insert it your columns.
R. E. IS.
Wooilville, Abbeville District, -S. C.
Our readers will remember how earnestly some
of the Van Uuren papers in this State, attempted
just previous to (he election, to prove that the
Whigs of the North were Abolitionists, and by
attempting to show that the State Rights party
here coincided with the wings there, to saddle
upon us the sin of co-operating with abolitionism.
It. will also ho remembered, that we denied
that the abolitionists belonged to either party at
the North exclusively. The events of every day
arc confirming what we said, and proving that
there arc as many and as violent abolitionists
among the self-styled democrats as among the
Whigs.
Dr. Duncan the Van Eureu representative in
Congress from the Cincinnati District in Ohio, is
a great man in the eyes of our Southern Demo
crats. Ifcis their lighting fowl in the House, of
whom they boasted that he had frightened Wise
out of his senses, as well ashalfthc Whigs in Con.
gress, and whose undelivered speech in reply to
Mr. Hand was extolled as the greatest production
of the age. In a word he is considered by the
Standard of Union and Constitutionalist as a per
fect model of democracy with whom the people of
the South should go heart ara) hand. Just prior to
Jhc. lute election in Ohio, the Doctor finding that
he was about, to be beaten, addressed a'seeret let
ter to the abolitionists giving his views upon slavery
The abolitionists all voted for him and he, thereby
saver! his election by 176 voles. They were able
to command just about enough votes to turn the
scale in his favor. The letter was kept secret
except among the fanatics until after the. election,
when a copy of it fell into the, hands of some
whig who had it published. The following is an
extract from it, to which we invite the attention
of our readers. —We especially ask a perusal of
it by the editors of the two papers above men
tioned.
“There is no man living, perhaps, who is more
deadly hostile to slavery than I am. My feelings
—my education—the circumstances that have
surrounded me through life, together with my
principles of what 1 believe to constitute the na
tural and political rights of man—all conspire to
make me abhor it as one of the greatest evils that
exists on the face of the earth. Yes, greater in
its moral clients and corrupting tendencies, than
all other human evils put together. It is not only
a moral and political evil within itself, or intrin
sically so of the darkest and most damning char
acter, but in all its bearings and effects calculated
to produce the most fatal effects on botljthe moral
and political institutions of our country It isan
evil that has, does now, and will in lime to
come while it exists, involve in it, as well in its
present possession as in its future operations,
crime, fraud, theft, robbery, murder, and death.
“ For the truth of what I say as to its present
effects upon the institutions of our country, I
have only to refer you to a view of the slave states,
in our Union, and a comparison between the re
lative condition of the improvements of them and
the free states. You see the free states happy
and flourishing, to the admiration and astonish
ment of all who see them.—Public improvements
and private prosperity arc swift and head in the
rac», while on the other hand poverty, lean and
; hungry, sterility, and squalid wretchedness, seem
t° eover the face ol the land, in many parts
where slave institutions have a residence. Cross
the line that separates the tree from the slave
states, or stand upon it and look across the former,
you will see comparatively nil life, all happiness,
all prosperity, both public and private, but turn
your eyes over the latter and survey it: every
thing material, (except a few of the wealthy pro
prietors) hearing the impress of poverty and dila
pidation ; nil looks ns if pestilence and famine
had been making their sad innovation. The an
ger ol God and the vengeance of Heaven seem to
rest upon every thing upon which you can cast
your eyes. Every prospect seems tube withered
and willed by the frown and disapprobation of
avenging justice and violated humanity. In
short, almost every institution, every prosperity,
public ami private, seems to he sickening and
dying from the corrupting and corroding effects of
slavery. Hut the curse he on the head of those
who sustain such an institution.”
At a meeting of the citizens of Augusta, held
on Saturday last, to take into consideration the
propriety of increasing the number of delegates
' Horn this county to the Stale Commercial ( ,'onven
-1 tion, His Honor the Mayor, was called to the
chair, and Win. D’Antigime, appointed secretary,
when upon motion of N. W. Cocke, Esq., the
j meeting adjourned to meet at 4 o’clock, P. M.
The meeting being organized, N. W. Cocke,
Esq. offered the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the citizens of Augusta, in
the appointment of delegates to (he State Com
mercial Convention, which it is to assemble at
Milledgcville, on (he 12th hist, acted upon the
conviction that the only just and equitable basis
ol representation in that body, was that upon
which the representation in the Legislature, is
founded, and that they arc still satisfied with the
correctness of that position.
Resolved, Therefore, that they deem it both
unnecessary and improper to appoint an addition
al number of delegates.
Resolved, That in accordance w ith this opinion,
the delegates from the city of Augusta, he in
instructed to insist that, upon all questions on
which there may he a division in the Convention,
each county shall he, allowed to vote the same
number of votes, and no more, than such county
is allowed in the Senatorial and Representative
branches of the State. Legislature.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
transmitted to the Delegates from the city of
Augusta, in said Convention.
The foregoing resolutions being unanimously
adopted, it was moved that the proceedings he
published in the city papers, when on motion the
meeting adjourned.
W. M. D’ANTIGNAC, Scc’y.
From the Savannah Georgian.
From Florida.
Hn.ui Qr.uiTuns —Aiimv ok the Soi-tii.
Fort Hadlee, (E. F.,) Onl. at), 1838.
Onintn No. (its. -
The season for active operations having arri
ved, the troops serving in Florida will he dispo
sed of us follows, viz. :
Ist, The ten companies of the 4ih regiment of
artillery, six companies of dragoons, and (Smith's
and AUckler’s companies of Florida militia, are
placed under the immediate command of Colonel
Twiggs, who, after leaving suitable garrisons at
lilack Creek, St. Augustine, Fort Peyton, New
Smyrna, Forts King, Mellon, Mieanopy, Picolntu,
Hanson, Walker, and Hadlee, will penetrate the
country, between the St. John’s and Oeklawaha
rivers, to Fort Mellon, on the first, and as high as
Lake Ahapopka, on the last; and between the St.
Johns and the Atlantic, from St, Augustine to
New Smyrna, causing n complete survey to he
made of the region designated. The swamps
and hammocks will ho accurately laid down, and
the latter checkered w ith roads, wherever necessa
ry, to prevent the enemy from locating his wo
men and children within them. He will also es
tablish such military posts as may serve to over
awe and drive the hostilcs from the country, and
give protection to'our frontier settlements.
2d, 11 rev. Col. Davenport, with four companies
of the Ist regiment of infantry, and one company
of the 2d dragoons, to he designated by the colo
nel of that regiment, will proceed as soon as prac
ticable to re-occupy Port Clinch, on the Within*
coochee river. He will employ that command in
scouring the country between that river and the
Suwanee on the margin of the gulf; particularly
along the region of the Waeassassa. Ho will
have a complete survey made of the thea tre of his
operations, penetrating such hammocks as may
require it with roads, and establishing such small
posts as may he necessary to drive the Indians
from that portion of the territory, and to prevent
(heir returning to it.
ad, The posts of Fort White and Fanning, arc
also to he placed under the command of Col. Da
venport.
The troops in Middle Florida, including the
fith regiment of infantry, ami one company of
the 2d infantry at Charles’ Ferry, are placed un
der the orders of Lieut. Col. Green, who has al
ready received instructions relative thereto.
4th, The three commands, above indicated,
arc separate and distinct, and they will report di
rect to general head quarters.
sth, Capl. Mac Kay, and Lieut. Gunnison, of
the topographical engineers, will report to Col.
Twiggs, and receive his orders. Lieut, lllake,
of that corps, will in like manner report to Col.
Davenport, and Lieut,McLean to the officer com
manding on the Okefenoke, for duty connected
with tha' department. Copies of all draughts
made by the several officers of topographical corps
will he forwarded to the chief of that corps, nud
also to these, head quarters.
fith, Burgeon DeCamp, senior surgeon in Flo
rida, and medical director on the cast side of the
peninsula, is assigned to duly with Col. Twiggs,
and will designate the several medical officers
within the limits of bis command, at; well as those [
around the Okefenoke, to the stations they are to j
occupy. Surgeon Wood, medical director on the j
west side, will in like manner, assign the medical j
officers to their stations on that side; and also j
those serving on the gulf with Col. Davenport,)
and with Col. Green, in Middle Florida.
7th, The commissariat will supply the neerstia
rv subsistence from the various depots at Tampa
jjav, Garry’s Ferry, and such olh< r point:; as may
j bo necessary.
Bth, The senior quarter-master to Florida will
j assign to the several columns sueh quartor-mas
-1 j ters as he may deem neces.: cy (or the objects in
1 view; and will furnish the transportation, tqqjs, j
forage, guides. iV c. &r., which may be required I o
carry intoellect the duties above designated. By
order of BRIG. OEM. TAYLOR.
.1. 11. La Mottf, Cnpt., and Asu’t Adj. Oen'l.
Show in the West,
An unusually severe mid early snow storm was
experienced in the western counties of Missouri
during the third week in October. A paper pub
lished at Liberty, in Clay county, thus describes
the visitation:
“ Cold winter is come! The show is now Snr
10 inches deep on the ground, and would have
been nt least, 1S inches, hud none of it melted.
It commenced falling on Tuesday night, and is
yet at it, (Thursday 12 o’clock.) We have
never in this country, seen, or heard of, so tre
mendous a snow so early in the season. The
trees are still green, the crops are nngathered,
and our community very little prepared tor the re
ception of so formidable a visiter.
Baxk RonnKtiY.-The Rmithfield Union Bank
was entered on Saturday between the hours of 8
and 10 in the morning, and robbed of S-TIOO, nil
in the bills of the hunk, a portion of which can he
identified. The cashier left the hank in the morn
ing on some business ; the robbers entered a va
cant tenement over the hank and cut through the
Hoor, by which means they effected a passage in
to the hanking room, ami were able to carry oil’
the money without the trouble of forcing the vault.
A reward of $5OO is olfered lor the recovery of
the money and the detection of the robbers.—
Providence Journal.
A Mnt.A\enoi.r Afkaiii.—A good looking
and respectable (icrnmn girl, who arrived in this
city about four months since, was taken into the
family ot Mr. Adam Gross, shoemaker, on the
corner of Water and Monroe streets, as a domes
tic. She had not been long in her situation ere
it was discovered she was encienlr. Upon being
challenged on the subject she denied that she was
so, with much feeling and earnestness. On Sun
day morning it was observed that her appearance ■
was much altered. Her room was searched and
in one of her trunks a line male child was found
dead and near to it, n pair of scissors covered with
blood. Two persons were then directed to watch '
her which they did all Sunday night until yester
day morning when they fell asleep. The girl, '
whose name is Anna li’Aschcr, seized this op
portunity to make her escape, which she effected
almost in a state of nudity. Nothing since has
been heard of her, and it is feared that she pro
ceeded to the river and threw herself in from one
of the wharfs.
A post mortem examination was had upon the
body of the child, and the Doctors gave it as their
opinion that it was horn alive. An inquest was
held and a verdict returned according to the cir
cumstances. —A’. F. Times.
Alabama against (In; Sub-Treasury !
We continue our report of the Alabama elec
tions upon the Sub-Treasury bases.
Casting up the account, we (Iml that the House
of Representatives stands Sub-Treasury seventeen,
anti Jifh/J/ircc , showing an anti Suh-Treasuiy
majority if eight, even if the 2(i members not
embraced in the foregoing classification arc all
Sub-Treasury men ; which we have reason to be
lieve is not the fact. Last year the Van Buren
major! ti/ was from 12 to 15; this year there will
he, we think, an equal anti Sub-Treasury majority.
In llic Senate we are inclined to admit that
there will he a majority of two or three in favor
of the Sub-Treasury, though of (he Senators elect,
of whoso polities we have received authentic in
formation, four to three are opposed to the Bnh-
Trcasury. There was a Van Huron majority
last year of a few voles.
There will be of eonree a decided anti Sub-
Treasury majority on joint ballot.
We heartily rejoice that Alabama has hurst the
shackles of [airly vassalage, and taken her stand [
with her sisters of the Month, tin- Old Dominion,
North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Louis
iana, in opposition to the leading measure of Mr. t
Van Huron's administration. Poor old South
Carolina—there she stands “solitary and alone,” .
a monument of fallen greatness. “The union of
the South!”—bn! ha! ha! Hut we will not
exult over her fallen fortunes. I
We intend to publish next, week, a list of the j
members, with some remarks, which our present
curtailed dimensions will not permit us to subjoin. (
Tusculoof.il Intel.
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. |
Uxfaiii Play. —One day last week a fine deer |
was discovered in the Niagara river opposite To- j
newandu, making an excursion toward the main |
hind. What the object of its visit was, is not
known—or where from. But it was suHicient
cause for hostilities, that its course was from Her 1
Majesty’s dominions, and towards our shore. The
innocent emigrant was doomed to a barbarous re
ception. Instead of meeting friends in tins land
of freedom, that would guide it to its native woods,
and let it range on its harmless career, dangers
awaited it worse even than a stay in the realm of
a monarch that is surrounded by disaffection and 1
revolt.
The deer was captured—hut not by the yan- *
kcos.— Brother Jonathan had no hand in that out- 1
rage upon the native of a neighboring power—at- '
though it might he charged upon him with equal 1
propriety as the occupancy of Navy Island. Both 1
expeditions were set on foot upon our shore. In
this instance, however, the war was carried on by
a young Frenchman and his servant, who put all . 1
in the boat, chatting to trust the fortune of a naval *
nation, rather than the unequal chance of a elmse
in the field. As the boat neared the deer, and the
Frenchman began to prepare for action, the strug- '
gling adventurer, already nearly exhausted by its
ell'orts against the tide of the river, began to beg
for quarter most piteously. It saw its impending (
fate—the boat glided swiftly upon the bosom of ,
| the waters—the foe was approaching—retreat was (
hazardous—logo forward was death-—and in this 1
hopeless, helpless, and defenceless condition— 11
“The big round tears
Uoursod one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase.”
Here was a scene—(he Frenchman*# heart he
gan to relent—he could not strike the, fatal blow
or pull the deadly trigger—hut still, how could he s
forego the fine saddle of venison that was pictured f
in his imagination. His appetite demanded the I
sacrifice, while his sympathies eschewed the bar
barons deed. He turned his hack upon his in- '
tended victim, and cried to his servant to do the
1 work of death. The order was obeyed, the vie
i tnrv was won. and the trophy towed ashore.
I
Tnr. Dahlia.—Wc are frequently Inquired of j (
how to preserve the Dahlia through the winter, j n
Our plan i:- the most simple imaginable. Soon J
after the occurrence of severe frost, wc cut oil Ihe J
stalks a few inches above the surface of the soil, ,
and on a clear d.ny carefully dig them up, label ~
each variety, and expose them through the day a
dry ; then put them in a box which will exclude fi
rats and place thwn in a dry cellar, perfectly
I free from front.
From the Preston (E'lg.J Olcurvcr.
Steam!—Steam I
Thu changeable World, and this changeable clime,'
W ill to vapor resolve themselves, sorely, in time ;
I or nothing enn now he accomplished ’twould seem,
lint hy the new fashiort’d appliance of steam.
1 he wheel and the distaff, that matron or girl,
I n spin nil we wanted, at home, wont to twirl,
I o “Jennie have yielded, and, ere long,l deem,
Cm shirts will he made, our hose numded —by steam.
The poor weaver’s visage “ warp’d ” by despair,
I'or steam id' his ruts "nils'' him out of his share (
II is prosperous days he ran nevbr redeem,
Tor in plain cloth in c/iecA-s, h« is still check'd by steam
The WncAsinith, at anvil, looks dismally black,
Outdone Irom an aehnr e’en down to a lack;
i Tor, in forging of trim, what power so supreme
As this hissing, ironical, iron-pent steam.
The sawyer, who lately so hoastingly talk’d
Os cutting up balks, is now cut vp and balk'd;
A log that for days made the sweat from'him stream,
In an hour is dissected hy top-sawyer — steam.
The old Kritish sailor, who laugh'd tii hear, ever,
Tittle fonts eon Id, without sails or oars, cross a river,
Is quite taken aback; for, against wind and stream,
Huge ships quickly cross the wide ocean hy steam.
Our towns with tall chimneys are bristled all o’er —
Our docks thick with chimneys where masts stood
before;
Tor economy’! sake, would of hope we'd a gleam
01 steam parsons, steam lawyers, steam doctors—
nil steam!
As for cotton, (lax, wool—he they ever so rough—
I hey pass through our noisy machinery—enough;
00l they come in fair pieces—with quickness ex
treme—
Dress’d, dy’e,d printed, folded, and pack’d—all by
steam.
I verily think we may soon put a hale
In one end of a factory t fix index or scale
To pattern, and so forth; and without a scan)*
Hring It out, at the other, in garments—by steam.
The press—that famed engine to teach and amuse—
Though quick, is too sluggish to give all the nows;
And hooks and newspapers, in many a rcatV
Air speedily printed, and hound, too, by stmm.
fleam now “rules the roast;”aful steam boils e'en
the pht;
Steam kettles, steam hearths, and steam kitchens
we’ve got;
And coaches and wagons that need not a team,
TI.V swiftly on railways and highways—by steam.
We travel hy steam, both by sea and by land;
The world, as our country, by steam we command;
And even our canal boats, by some novel scheme,
(Hide smoothly,and swifter than ever, by steam.
’The coachman begins for his living to fear,
And think it were prudent to turn engineer,
And part with hi: tits, though with sorrow extreme
Tor nags that cat coals—and run, “snorting,” by
steam.
’Tis n paradox quite, and the world’s admiration,
To lie “ kept in hot water” ipi it e prospers the nation
And no foreign state will of war with us dream —
Tor their vapring, they know we could spoil with
our steam.
In peace or in war, other means far above,
Me.no helps ns to light—ay, or even make love !
Toril you would win tiie suit favoring beam ,
(M beauty’s bright eye, yon must“ get up the steam."
Then ha.il to the agent so pleasing, yet dread,
I hat sneli wonderful changes around us can spread ;'
All praise it—and I too, must go with the stream;
Success to the ho I, hissing potentate— steam!
el. one aspiration I'd breathe from fho heart.
May steam to the poor, too, bis bounties impart?
And our safety valve ne'er, may wc weight in ex
treme,
Test our pride and our hopes lie all “blown up by
si ram !
Written by steam, Preston, July 20, IS3H.
* A manufacturer in lilasgow is making a chemise
for the Quweti without a scam.
A f .mvi vto \ (,’amk.—Speaking of hi a pair mis,
tlie ISaiiilersville Advocate says ;
“ VA i' have a host of friends; wlm never fail
to support ns with their “good wishes ” for our
success, with a becoming spirit; and who at the
same lime, have perhaps never seen u single num
ber ol our paper. They feel a very great interest
in tl\e suecees ol the paper, so far as the “ wind
inor It is concerned, hut when it comes to the
real thing or nothing, they are oil! They put us
in mind of some ol our public spirited and enter
pmnife lidlow-eiti/.ens of the present day, who
evince considerable talking powers, hut it all ends
like the quarrels of the Montagues and L'apiilrls
in "words, words, words.” and if you once,
touch the jinrhil wne, its all over with them.”
A Litkuaiiv (JrniosTTv.—The following is
a copy—literatim el punetuutim—of a petition
signed hy sixty-three persons, and presotded to
tile Legislature of Alabama, no longer ago than
the hist Dee. lH2f):
“Shelby County Alabama State—this petition
is to the honorable body ol the J.egislnlor of Aln
bitme ami Also to the Semite of the upper house
(•reeling to (lie members of honth houses of Aia
hinnr that we the petitioners want you to istaldisK
to fsaas A. Tinder his furry in Shelby county a
Trees (Joosny Hiver on the slate Hoad leading
horn'Tuscaloosa, Crossing at Kimulgee leading
todeorgia as witness onr liaiuls mid seals this
first day of December in the year of our. Lord
Light hundred and twenty nine.”
The best of the joke is, that Mr. Pickett moved
to refer the petition to the Committee on Educa
tion.”—Mont., CAIu.J Advertiser.
COMMERCIAL.
Charleston, November 10.
Cotton. —The nimket this week, in consequence
ot the small amount of Tplands received, has herb 1
rather languid,nml, us we noticed in oarhist report,
tiie demand for the inferior qualities were quite
limited. The middling descriptions are not enquired
after, lint tiie average price on all are about the
same as heretofore.
Hut two Turopean vessels are loading nf our
pork , and the No Ahem are now the principal chan
nel of exportation. We may now look for low
rivets, which will have the temporary effect to di
minish tiie supplies, and increase the demand: the
sure precursor of better prices. We anxiously look
for Liverpool dates to the 20th vilt., per steamer
from Liverpool,and for which many are waiting, to
govern their operations. The sales of the week
were 17-12 bags, at all cets per lb.
rj , iii -m,-,- r| |
INrORMATfOY.
rj «Hid subscriber, with others, will make appliea
■ 1 ion to the hegidlnliiresof South Carolina and
Georgia, at their next regular session, to incorporate
a company fir the purpose nf eo istrueting a bridge,
or a boat m lie impelled by the power of steam or
hniae, crossing the Savannah Uiver. at or near
Hamburg anil Augusta, for I heir own use, in order
to eiieonragn the Intercourse and avoid paying the
extravagant toll at the p esent bridge, in which en
lerprise I lie citizens and incorporated companies of
Gem gin, n« well as South Carolina, may participate.
ii KN KV s>IUM,TZ,
f,'a ohurg,' C August 22, 1833. w3nr*